Earth-Like world next to our nearest star!

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LIKE A FLY IN THE SPIDERS WEB

I never claimed I blocked you, nor did I. Why are you changing the topic and avoiding the point?

You blame religion for a lack of scientific progress, when our Tory government (who you undoubtedly support or voted for, unless you voted for UKIP which is likely) when they actively make students pay almost £30,000, and have not emphasised STEM degrees in the slightest. Pathetic.

Scientists have discovered an earth-like planet orbiting around our nearest star, 4.2 light years away.

Currently named Proxima b, new technologies over the coming centuries would mean that the planet could be accessible one day.

So, we could be living just a few kilometres (well, 40 trillion) away from extra terrestrial life forms

Scientists have discovered an earth-like planet orbiting around our nearest star, 4.2 light years away.

Currently named Proxima b, new technologies over the coming decades would mean that the planet could be accessible one day.

So, we could be living just a few kilometres (well, 40 trillion) away from extra terrestrial life forms

Imagine if every human and country just binned of *****y religion and wars for greed and pooled resources together towards space and science

Scientists have discovered an earth-like planet orbiting around our nearest star, 4.2 light years away.

Currently named Proxima b, new technologies over the coming decades would mean that the planet could be accessible one day.

So, we could be living just a few kilometres (well, 40 trillion) away from extra terrestrial life forms

Nothing's over buddy, I never even mentioned you on that page, let alone 'blocked' you. LOL. Did you just choose a random time when I said I blocked someone and hope I would not check who I was replying to? Pathetic.

But you're obviously avoiding the point because you know its true. Whinging about religion holding science back is ridiculous. Especially when people like Isaac Newton, Gallileo, Guass, Kepler, Faraday, Maxwell, etc were all CHRISTIAN.

The reason we aren't advancing is because of the commercialisation of education, thanks to the Tories, who you probably support.

Heard of this somewhere...I suppose it's part of the Alpha Centauri??

Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but alpha centauri has been discovered a while back with research showing that it could potentially support human life

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Sadly I think it'll be at least another 600 years before we see any kind of interstellar craft of any capability, possibly even longer.

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Sadly I think it'll be at least another 600 years before we see any kind of interstellar craft of any capability, possibly even longer.

Not so downbeat as that personally, i think sometime around 2200.It's very probably that ITER will work properly in which case fusion is viable in the 2060's. Allowing for some time to make those reactors smaller then we get a probe to the star system early in the 2100's.We already have a mathematical formula to go faster than light and are attempting to experiment with anti-matter so allowing another century we get out there in the early 2200's.

Only about 10% of people in this country have worthwhile ideas (less in the less developed world) and only another 40% of people are really required for manufacturing and fulfilling our needs.Moral of the story, half the population is useless and at least materialism gives them something to do.It's possible that it may be habitable in the sense of having water and an atmosphere we could breathe however the chances of developed life are minimal on the basis of radiation and being tidally locked.To have two planets in our nearest star system though is a great sign.Are we not advancing? The UK space industry is going from strength to strength and we're on track to have a 10% market share by 2030.Christianity in Europe is clearly geared more towards prosperity than other religions.Alpha Centuari is the name of the star system (it's a trinary system with one star like our sun). Based on findings from Kepler it's likely that most stars have planets around them, the number of earth like planets alone is speculated to be between 4-17 billion.We should find a lot more earth like planets from next Autumn when TESS goes up. Whereas Kepler looked at one part space but thousands of light years deep (which is why we've found lots of good planets hundreds of light years away), TESS will scan the whole sky with the aim of observing the nearest 200,000 stars. Since we live in a relatively dense stellar neigbourhood there are over 30 stars within 16 light years that may have habitable planets (i've excluded binary/trinary systems plus white and brown dwarfs).

Here's the problems with finding Earth like planets: they have to have so many factors combined together that need to be suitable for life as different factors affect each other (always hear about how planets can have liquid water when in the habitable zone... Ignoring air pressure). Then also we can barely measure that many things about planets at the moment. Using the transit method we can guess the orbit and then with that and the size of brightness drops the size of the planet. We can't tell what orbit the planet follows (that's impossible), we can't tell how fast it spins on its axis (that's impossible) and it's incredibly hard to find elements in the atmospheres of Jupiter sized planets at the moment.Now onto space travel. Using anti matter or this FTL equation to create a new propulsion system is going to be horrendously hard. Then also the distances anyway are just too far away. Alpha Centauri is 4.2 light years away and a group called the 100yearstarshipproject said that if you travelled at 1000x the speed of voyager (35700000 mph) it would take 70 years to reach alpha Centauri. That is our closest star, some of the possibly habitable planets are several hundreds light years away.

There's then the issue of just building the ship itself. You need to have a very large crew due to the issues of generations of inbreeding resulting in genetic diseases. This requires a horrendously large ship and then you need a source of food on the ship... Making it larger, you need to protect the crew from debris in space and also from radiation and it also needs to provide artificial gravity... Which the main idea is to spin the ship which will be a lot of fun. Constructing such a ship is even a bloody ridiculous task itself because the ship will be impossible to launch on earth so needs to be built in orbit and will require a god awful amount of funding and resources.

Edit: sorry about the lack of paragraphs, my phone decided to ignore the fact that I separated several lines and put them together making 2 stupidly large paragraphs.

Not so downbeat as that personally, i think sometime around 2200.

It's very probably that ITER will work properly in which case fusion is viable in the 2060's. Allowing for some time to make those reactors smaller then we get a probe to the star system early in the 2100's.

We already have a mathematical formula to go faster than light and are attempting to experiment with anti-matter so allowing another century we get out there in the early 2200's.

They are talking about sending nano craft at 20% speed of light to photograph it etc. May be feasible to get a look at this world in our lifetime, who knows

Theoretically if fusion pans out then we should be able to reach about 10% the speed of light so getting a probe there in decades is possible potentially.

I don't think we'll go down the generation ship route, it's very impractical. I think we'll probably see the solar system crawling with ships and bases but until we get interstellar technology probes are all that will reach other planets.

Imagine if every human and country just binned of *****y religion and wars for greed and pooled resources together towards space and science

Pedantically speaking, its been known for quite some time about a habitable planet around our nearest start. Heres a pic of it. Here is a close up view of the same planet.



We would have military bases on Mars by now. It would serve as a space base while preparing to go to war with those Andromedan bastards who are about to invade us.